74 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
Basin Surveys at the annual session of the Nebraska Academy of Sci- 
ences and read a paper explaining and summarizing the activities of 
the Surveys. On June 3 Mr. Cooper left Lincoln for North Dakota. 
Two days were spent en route in conferring with personnel at the 
University of South Dakota Museum. Arriving at the Heart Butte 
Reservoir project on the Park River in North Dakota, Mr. Cooper 
initiated reconnaissance work and started some test excavations in 
a site not far above the location for the dam. These investigations 
were in progress at the close of the fiscal year. 
Robert B. Cumming, Jr., archeologist, continued to serve as the 
laboratory supervisor at the Lincoln headquarters. He planned and 
directed the procedures for processing specimens, photographic nega- 
tives and prints, the preparation of maps and diagrams for the reports, 
the typing of manuscripts and cutting of stencils, and the general 
maintenance of equipment. During the course of the year 37,406 speci- 
mens were cleaned, repaired if necessary, numbered, cataloged, and 
stored. Since the beginning of the project 59,306 specimens have been 
processed. Over 830 photographic negatives and their prints were 
added to the files, bringing the total to 1,256. Approximately 100 
kodachrome positives were cataloged, making 179 now available for 
use in illustrating talks about the program. During the year Mr. 
Cumming established a file for photographic enlargements suitable 
for publicity purposes and one for lantern slides. Reference maps 
and aerial photographs were indexed and filed, 835 of the former and 
277 of the latter now being available for use by the staff. In addition 
Mr. Cumming assisted in and supervised the mimeographing and 
assembling of reports issued during the year. These consisted of 10 
preliminary archeological reports, 5 supplementary archeological 
reports, and 2 paleontological reports. He also carried on the project 
inventory and requisitioning of supplies throughout the year. During 
such times as the field director and acting director were away from 
Lincoln he was in charge of the field office. 
From July 1 to November 7, Jack T. Hughes, archeologist, assisted 
Wesley L. Bliss in Wyoming and Montana, where he participated in 
reconnaissance and survey of several reservoir basins. From Novem- 
ber 8 to May 30 he worked in the office at Lincoln where he aided in 
the preparation of various reports on the field work of the 1947 
season. He wrote two reports entitled “Supplementary Appraisal of 
the Archeological Resources of Oregon Basin Reservoir, Park County, 
Wyoming” and “Supplementary Appraisal of the Archeological Re- 
sources of Tiber Reservoir, Toole and Liberty Counties, Montana.” 
He also prepared the following section of a report entitled “Archeology 
of Birdshead Cave, Fremont County, Wyoming”: Introduction, site, 
locale, occupation, and complexes, as well as parts of those on remains 
